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Okay, in other words: I won't be buying any more Steam games 🐳
Got enough stuff in my library to last until GoG starts working nicely enough on Linux 🐧
You don't need GOG galaxy to install and run GOG games. In fact you shouldn't if you care about keeping your games.
Currently happily using Heroic to manage GOG games. But, I still welcome GOG putting in effort to make it a smooth experience.
Disagree. The fewer barriers to using a game the better. GOG offers full DRM free downloads regardless of Galaxy existing.
Not using a launcher equals fewer barriers. GOG installers work out of the box with Wine. The whole point of GOG is literally that you can do all of that without restrictions like say... Being forced to use a launcher. So it's not a big deal if Galaxy for Linux isn't around.
Yes and the DRM free part only matters if you keep a copy of the installer. Galaxy doesn't do that.
Why would that be relevant on Linux? WINE/Proton virtual environments are portable.
File compression, for starters. A dedicated installer is much easier to bring around.
Now you have a very portable, highly compressed file that is easy to move around.
You can compress folders and entire file systems.
For one game, maybe. For a bunch of games an automated backup that collects the entire library and save games is much more practical. There are several easy to use solutions, not to mention scripting if you want really fine grained control.
That's some kind of fallacy, I am sure. Just because I want to own my games I must not care about the hassle of installing them? False equivalence maybe?
Have you tried Heroic Games Launcher and found it to be a hassle?
It was indeed quite a hassle, but worth it. That's completely beside the question though
wait. why? i use gog galaxy for gog games. and steam for those there. should i be dloading offline installers for gog ones and saving them aside too?
If you want the benefit of a DRM game, yes. Otherwise you still don't own the game. GOG has removed games from libraries before and will again at some point in the future.
Which games have they removed from libraries? Typically, these storefronts (including GOG) will remove games from sale, but not from the libraries of customers who already bought them. For instance, they deep discounted WarCraft 1 and 2 before Microsoft requested their delisting, but I've still got them in my library.
If you care this much about not using Steam, why would this be the deciding factor? I can play GoG games right now on Linux.
I tried that some time ago, and at least at that point it needed configuration to get up and running. It was a hassle. I have family that needs a lot of my time at the moment. Between August and December I could find less than 10 days where I was able to decide by myself what I do after workdays or on weekends.
I'm not going to spend those precious minutes configuring any damn thing. Steam works out of the box. Now someone was just mentioning something called Heroic launcer. Sounds good. Wonder why Gog is not linking to it very visibly on its site if it works?
Yeah, I understand Linux gaming was not great until fairly recently. Heroic and Lutris have been around for a few years now as I understand it, though I admit I'm still new to the scene. Honestly though, in my experience, Steam still doesn't just work in some cases, and I've admitted to myself that's just going to be the Linux gaming experience. I check Proton DB before buying any game now.
It strikes me odd that Heroic doesn't want to be available with apt, though! It's even advertising that it is intentionally packaged in a way that duplicates pre-existing libraries – apparently to just take some extra place from my hard drive for fun?!
Doesn't really wake much trust in them caring about how to use a computer's resources. Whether one wants to be afraid of two applications sharing a library file or not should be left for the user to decide... And it's not very nice that there an increasing number of ways applications can be installed, and these clever people are supporting that development... How am I supposed to have any overlook over what's installed on my computer? This is starting to feel like Windows :(
I don't really believe it's very good for computer security that applications are installed without anything in the OS keeping track of whether they need security updates or not!
So far this is only about one person and none of the ecosystem contributions to Mesa, SDL, Wine,...
Definitively better than nothing, though!